Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c18.76

c18.76

It is remarkable that, unlike the grants of the early Châlukya princes, those of the Râshṭrakûṭas contain accounts in verse of the ancestors of the grantor, and most of the verses are of the nature of those we find in the ordinary artificial poems in Sanskrit literature, possessing the same merits and faults The Râshṭrakûṭas, therefore, must have been patrons of learning, and probably had poets in their service One of the three Krishṇas belonging to the dynasty is the hero of an artificial poem by Halâyudha entitled the *Kavirahasya*, the purpose of which is to explain the distinction as regards sense and conjugational peculiarities between roots having the same external form He is spoken of as the paramount sovereign of Dakshinâpatha ⁵⁹ Prof Westergaard, however, thought [77] him to be the Krishṇarâva of the Vijayanagar dynasty who reigned in the first quarter of the sixteenth century But in the *Kavirahasya* he is spoken of in one place as "having sprung from the Râshṭrakûṭa race,"⁶⁰ and is in another called "the ornament of the lunar